All amounts of money paid out by a government--net of recoveries and other correcting transactions--other than for retirement of debt, investment in securities, extension of credit, or as agency transactions. Note that expenditure includes only external transactions of a government and excludes non-cash transactions such as the provision of perquisites or other payments in kind.

About this application: This application presents data on state government finances based on information collected from the US Census Annual Survey of State Government Finances. This survey covers the following government finance activities: revenues by source, expenditures by characteristic and function, indebtedness by term, and cash and security holdings by purpose